ROME — Six adventure girls recently learned how to use a torch and weld their own metal garden stakes and hanging pieces with Eda and Dave Benttinen of D&E Metalworks. Girls in grades 2-6, from across Maine, try new hobbies in different career fields each month.
March 2012
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Filling stomachs
SKOWHEGAN — Twenty-nine million tons of food is wasted in American every year while 16 percent of children go hungry.
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Does the new system work? Some are sold; some are skeptical
School districts on the leading edge of proficiency-based education are still in the midst of change.
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MORNING SENTINEL GIRLS INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Brown sets high standard for Panthers
Before the start of the indoor track and field season, Bethanie Brown looked at the state records in her events and wasn’t sure she had a realistic chance to run those times.
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Sidney approves 46 articles
SIDNEY — It was a long day of discussion Saturday during Town Meeting, but in the end voters approved all 46 articles.
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If no help is available, bite the bullet and find a way
My comments concerning Marguerite Thibault’s letter in the March 19 issue (“The demise of the middle class”) are not about the middle class, but rather her reasonable clarification of what freedom is all about. I grew up in even less than the middle class and I know what she was talking about. We found a […]
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Madison draws gas map
MADISON — Whether natural gas pipes will be installed under your street depends in part on whether you and your neighbors will use natural gas and where you live in town.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Crowdsourcing opens door to better science
In the decade since Wikipedia showed how it could be done, there has been an extraordinary democratization of knowledge.
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MLB: Aviles stakes claim to shortstop job
DUNEDIN, Fla. — There were no highlights causing oohs and aahs from the shortstop Sunday afternoon.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Baby boomer boom must spur program reform
As the U.S. unemployment rate has dropped over the past year, a persistent refrain from many quarters has been that part of the drop can be chalked up to people removing themselves from the labor force.